Latest articles by Bill DeMain
The Way It Is was inspired by Bruce Hornsby's home town of Williamsburg, Virginia – and enjoyed a second life with Tupac Shakur
In 2014, on the eve of a new album and a world tour, Dolly Parton revealed some of the biggest challenges and hurdles she’d had to overcome
Fact: Rock Lobster was written in the bloodletting room at a disused funeral home
The wisdom of Peter Frampton: Music is the best medicine. Always sit up straight. A good curry makes life worth living. Artists should take a stand politically
Every song on the Eagles' Hotel California, analysed
Fifty years after it was recorded and released, Don Henley and producer Bill Szymczyk revisit the making of the Eagles' most successful album
Bobby Fuller could have been the next Buddy Holly – but he died in mysterious circumstances in 1966 at the age of 23.
Bruce Hornsby could easily just rest on his laurels, but with his new album Indigo Park exploring memory and aging, he’s still forging ahead, adding fresh twists to his classic sound
These two cross-generational icons talk about siblings, sobriety and covering Stairway To Heaven in front of Led Zeppelin themselves.
Rocky Mountain Way came to Joe Walsh as he mowed his lawn, much to the detriment of his furious neighbour's rose bushes
From an unwanted demo came Don Henley's Boys Of Summer, a song that aches with nostalgia and innocence
When Hendrix arrived in the UK in 1966, the rock world tilted on its axis and he shot from unknown to superstar and changed everything
After Aladdin Sane, Bowie recorded Pin Ups to pacify his label – but the critics weren't impressed
How new-wave eccentrics The B-52s spun lobsters, aliens and Yoko Ono into floor-shaking hits and became massive
As the visionary heart and soul of the Beach Boys, Brian Wilson created a mythic California soundtrack of sun-drenched, youthful innocence and some timeless classics, all while battling personal demons, addiction and mental illness
Buying guide Songwriter, producer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, digital pioneer: Todd Rundgren is a restless and progressive artist with diverse, distinguished catalogue
After decades of feuding and fall-outs, The Black Crowes' Chris and Rich Robinson have found a groove of brotherly love and rock bravado
Space Oddity would introduce the wider world to David Bowie
Although David Bowie's Berlin-period anthem Heroes was initially something of a commercial failure, it became a classic for the ages
Inspired by a draft dodging lover and unfolding global chaos, Heart's Crazy On You still resonates today
How a young David Bowie’s artistic manifesto was captured in three and a half perfect minutes
A story of Hawaiian volcanoes and Mick Jagger's bloody finger
Janis Joplin’s I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama would be the last album she released during her lifetime
